The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Cognos products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the St Albans region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Cognos over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Vendors for the St Albans region.

The figures below represent the IT job market in general and are NOT representative of salaries within IBM Cognos.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cognos
Rank - - 36
Permanent jobs citing Cognos 0 0 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in St Albans - - 0.559%
As % of the Vendors category - - 0.980%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 1
Average salary - - £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
+6.25% -11.11%
All Vendors
St Albans
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
105 62 102
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in St Albans 58.33% 46.62% 56.98%
Number of salaries quoted 64 43 35
Average salary £28,500 £37,500 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-24.00% -8.53%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £26,500 £29,000
10% offered a salary of more than £48,500 £60,000 £49,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Cognos
Hertfordshire

Cognos
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Cognos across the St Albans region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

St Albans Cognos Jobs Demand Trend

Cognos
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Cognos across the St Albans region.

St Albans Cognos Salary Trend

Cognos
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the St Albans region citing Cognos also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Cognos.

1 4 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle
1 4 (100.00%) UNIX
1 4 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 4 (100.00%) Data Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Subversion
2 2 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle Application Server
2 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (50.00%) QA
2 2 (50.00%) Jetty
2 2 (50.00%) QMS
2 2 (50.00%) JCL
2 2 (50.00%) JBoss
2 2 (50.00%) Apache
2 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Business Objects
2 2 (50.00%) JSP
2 2 (50.00%) J2EE

Cognos
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the St Albans region citing Cognos also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Cognos. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (50.00%) J2EE
1 2 (50.00%) JSP
Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) Apache
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Application Server
1 2 (50.00%) Jetty
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Applications Support
2 2 (50.00%) Data Analyst
2 2 (50.00%) Analyst
2 2 (50.00%) Programmer
2 2 (50.00%) Support Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Developer
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Data Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) QMS
2 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
1 4 (100.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (50.00%) JCL
2 2 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle
2 2 (50.00%) Business Objects
2 2 (50.00%) JBoss